The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-04-08
How Railroads are Built in the Northwest.

A special dispatch from DEVILS Lake,
Dakota, gives the following interesting
account OF the mammoth railroad opera.
lions westward from that place:
Nothing in railroad building heretofore
in the Northwest has approached the rapid.
ity and army like system with which the
Manitoba company is sending forward ma
terial for the construction of the Montana
line. For the past three months there
have gone through this place daily, on
an average, Z cars laden with NIL
sorts of construction material.
At Minot, the present terminus Of the
track 1877 miles West of Devils Lake, the
company has laid something like ten miles
OF sidings to receive this material, and
along both sides OF these numerous tracks
are piled great quantities OF ties, bridge
material, piles and thousands OF the best
quality OF steel rails. Said an old rail.
road contractor, after visiting Minot:
is is worth a days travel to
see these mountains OF costly ma
~terial." And still it goes forward in in.
~creasing quantities. For the past twenty
-four hours the trains have averaged one in
every two hours. And it is estimated that
it will require two hundred cars daily the
entire summer OF this material to be sent
forward that there may be no delay in the
building OF this great line of road. All en-
gines do not wait at the terminus Tor the un-
loading Of trains, but hasten back for more
cars, and it is not an sight to
see ten OF these monster iron horses on
their return, with a single caboose car at
tached to each, speeding along the track
only a few hundred yards apart. In all
this gigantic work there is no confusion,
not ali accident OF any kind has occurred.
all material is separated and placed where
i can be reloaded and handled at
the minimum cost. The roadbed fof
a hundred miles west OF Minot
lone OF which is /, 800 feet long) and water
tanks are completed for q distance OF 35
milee beyond that point. Tracklaying will
Legin in II few days, and grading as soon as
The frost is nut Of the ground sufficiently
Tor that work. Several engineer corps are
already in the field many miles in advance
bi last years work making ready for the
hrny Of over $4,000 graders that will soon
lollow. II is needless to say that at the
| Asaa q this great enterprise stands alone
bne man, James ]. Hill. He it WAS that
projected and is carrying 1t all through.
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In the British house Of commons Hol-
and, colonial secretary, stated: The ana-
Han parliament possessed authority to
purchase and direct the operations ofarm-
bd cruisers in Canadian waters without the
consent Of the imperial government. The
yet OF 1867 gave Canada pcwssto legislate
h all matters relative to MILITIA and mill
larry and naval defense.
w. 0'Brien, editor Of United Ireland. III
, speech a. Dublin said; II the evictions
en LORD Transformers estate did not cease.
ke and Mr.. Kilbird, who was the principal
tenant on his lordship's I~.uggeSarren en-
late, and who was recently avicted, would
Fisit Canada and begin an agitation with.
view to having Lord L~ansdowns ousted
Fom the palace at Ottawa.
It is reassertod that Robert Uniacke Pen
rose Fitzgerald Conservative meghber az
parliament Tor the borough 81 Cambridge.
to be Appointed undpr secretary fSr IRE
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